CIA whistleblower John Kiriakou speaks out The goal really of the
Justice Department is to ruin the whistleblower personally, professionally, and
financially. I hadn’t thought that through, and that’s exactly what happened to
me. But again, it’s opened up a whole new world for me in the realm of human
right and civil liberties.

[vid] Professor McCoy
Exposes the History of CIA Interrogation
TRANSCRIPT if you look at the most famous of photographs from
Abu Ghraib, of the Iraqi standing on the box, arms extended with a hood over his
head and the fake electrical wires from his arms, okay? In that photograph you
can see the entire 50-year history of C.I.A. torture. It’s very simple. He’s
hooded for sensory disorientation, and his arms are extended for self-inflicted
pain. And those are the two very simple fundamental C.I.A. techniques, developed
at enormous cost.
From 1950 to 1962, the C.I.A. ran a massive research project,
a veritable Manhattan Project of the mind, spending over $1 billion a year to
crack the code of human consciousness, from both mass persuasion and the use of
coercion in individual interrogation. And what they discovered — they tried LSD,
they tried mescaline, they tried all kinds of drugs, they tried electroshock,
truth serum, sodium pentathol. None of it worked. What worked was very simple
behavioral findings, outsourced to our leading universities — Harvard,
Princeton, Yale and McGill — and the first breakthrough came at McGill. And it’s
in the book. And here, you can see the — this is the — if you want show it, you
can. That graphic really shows —- that’s the seminal C.I.A. experiment done in
Canada and McGill University.

[2013 Feb] 'US a
police state, Obama consciously allows torture' – CIA veteran John Kiriakou
I think that president Obama just like president Bush has made a conscious
decision to allow the torturers, to allow the people who conceived of the
tortures and implemented the policy, to allow the people who destroyed the
evidence of the torture and the attorneys who used specious legal analysis to
approve of the torture to walk free. And I think that once this decision has
been made – that’s the end of it and nobody will be prosecuted, except
me....When I returned from Pakistan to CIA headquarters early in the summer
2002, I was asked by a senior officer in the CIA’s counter-terrorist center if I
wanted to be trained in the use of torture techniques, and I told him that I had
a moral problem with these techniques. I believed that they were wrong and I
didn’t want to have anything to do with the torture program.

The torture question as for the torture question it seems obvious to
any sentient citizen that its true agenda lies in the States' power over its
people, and certainly not in protecting the "homeland."

[2010] Controversial MK
ULTRA Drug Given to All Guantanamo Detainees Akin to "Pharmacologic
Waterboarding" The Defense Department
forced all "war on terror" detainees at the Guantanamo Bay prison to take a high
dosage of a controversial antimalarial drug, mefloquine, an act that an Army
public health physician called "pharmacologic waterboarding." The US military
administered the drug despite Pentagon knowledge that mefloquine caused severe
neuropsychiatric side effects, including suicidal thoughts, hallucinations and
anxiety. The drug was used on the prisoners whether they had malaria or not.

[2004] Roots of Abu
Ghraib in CIA techniquesLast April when Americans
found themselves looking at photographs of U.S. soldiers abusing naked and
hooded Iraqis at Abu Ghraib prison, it’s a safe bet that most didn’t realize
they were looking at torture techniques refined by the Central Intelligence
Agency over the last half century.

Quotes.....Bart Osborn (whose agent net Stein inherited) is more
specific. “I never knew in the course of all those operations any detainee to
live through his interrogation,” Osborn testified before Congress in 1971. “They
all died. There was never any reasonable establishment of the fact that any one
of those individuals was, in fact, cooperating with the VC, but they all died
and the majority were wither tortured to death or things like thrown out of
helicopters.”[book
extract] The My Lai Massacre and The
“Tiger Cages” by Douglas Valentine

They need torture as a tool to produceconfessed
patsies for future false flag operations. Torture serves their depraved need to
persuadeinnocent people to confess to crimes they did
not commit and convince those patsies to accuseother
innocent patsies of being their co-conspirators.[2012 Book] 9/11–Enemies Foreign and Domestic by
Edward Hendrie

As for the American role, according to Muldoon, "you can't have an American
there all the time watching these things." "These things" included: rape, gang
rape, rape using eels, snakes, or hard objects, and rape followed by murder;
electrical shock ("the Bell Telephone Hour") rendered by attaching wires to the
genitals or other sensitive parts of the body, like the tongue; "the water
treatment"; "the airplane," in which a prisoner's arms were tied behind the back
and the rope looped over a hook on the ceiling, suspending the prisoner in
midair, after which he or she was beaten; beatings with rubber hoses and whips;
and the use of police dogs to maul prisoners. All this and more occurred in PICs. The Phoenix Program by Douglas
Valentine p.85

Page 63 (hardcover edition)
"Now everyone knows about the airborne interrogation—taking three people up in a
chopper, taking one guy and saying. Talk,' then throwing him out before he even
gets the chance to open his mouth. Well, we wrapped det [detonator] cord around
their necks and wired them to the detonator box. And basically what it did was
blow their heads off. The interrogator would tell the translator, usually a
South Vietnamese intelligence officer, 'Ask him this.' He'd ask him, 'Who gave
you the gun?' And the guy would start to answer, or maybe he wouldn't—maybe he'd
resist—but the general idea was to waste the first two. They planned the
snatches that way. Pick up this guy because we're pretty sure he's VC
cadre—these other two guys just run errands for him. Or maybe they're nobody;
Tran, the farmer, and his brother Nguyen. But bring in two. Put them in a row.
By the time you get to your man, he's talking so fast you got to pop the weasel
just to shut him up." After a moment's silence he added, "I guess you could say
that we wrote the book on terror."
The Phoenix Programby Douglas
Valentine

The Bush administration approved the use of waterboarding, a technique in
which a suspect was strapped to a board, his feet raised above his head, and his
face covered with a wet cloth as interrogators poured water over it. The body
responds as if it is drowning, over and over as the process is repeated. "We
find that the use of the waterboard constitutes a threat of imminent death,"
Justice Department attorneys wrote. "From the vantage point of any reasonable
person undergoing this procedure in such circumstances, he would feel as if he
is drowning at the very moment of the procedure due to the uncontrollable
physiological sensation he is experiencing."[2009 April] Four CIA Chiefs Said 'Don't Reveal Torture
Memos'

[vid] Professor McCoy
Exposes the History of CIA InterrogationTRANSCRIPT Now, one of the things that
Donald Rumsfeld did, right at the start of the war of terror, in late 2002, he
appointed General Geoffrey Miller to be chief at Guantanamo, alright, because
the previous commanders at Guantanamo were too soft on the detainees, and
General Miller turned Guantanamo into a de facto behavioral research laboratory,
a kind of torture research laboratory. And under General Miller at Guantanamo,
they perfected the C.I.A. torture paradigm. They added two key techniques. They
went beyond the universal sensory receptors of the original research. They added
to it an attack on cultural sensitivity, particularly Arab male sensitivity to
issues of gender and sexual identity.
And then they went further still. Under General Miller, they
created these things called "Biscuit" teams, behavioral science consultation
teams, and they actually had qualified military psychologists participating in
the ongoing interrogation, and these psychologists would identify individual
phobias, like fear of dark or attachment to mother, and by the time we’re done,
by 2003, under General Miller, Guantanamo had perfected the C.I.A. paradigm, and
it had a three-fold total assault on the human psyche: sensory receptors,
self-inflicted pain, cultural sensitivity, and individual fears and phobia.

On August 25, 1970, an article appeared in The New York Times hinting that
the CIA, through Phoenix, was responsible for My Lai. The story line was
advanced on October 14, when defense attorneys for David Mitchell — a sergeant
accused and later cleared of machine-gunning scores of Vietnamese in a drainage
ditch in My Lai — citing Phoenix as the CIA’s “systematic program of
assassination,” named Evan Parker as the CIA officer who “signed documents,
certain blacklists,” of Vietnamese to be assassinated in My Lai. When we spoke,
Parker denied the charge.
......As in any large-scale Phoenix operation, two of Task Force Barker’s companies
cordoned off the hamlet while a third one — Calley’s — moved in, clearing the
way for Kotouc and Special Branch officers who were “brought to the field to
identify VC from among the detained inhabitants.” .....The
CIA, via Phoenix, not only perpetrated the My Lai massacre but also concealed
the crime.
....As Jeff Stein said, “The first thing you learn in
the Army is not competence, you learn corruption. And you learn ‘to get along,
go along.’” Unfortunately not everyone learns to get along. On September 3, 1988, Robert
T’Souvas was apparently shot in the head by his girl friend, after an argument
over a bottle of vodka. The two were homeless, living out of a van they had
parked under a bridge in Pittsburgh. T’Souvas was a Vietnam veteran and a
participant in the My Lai massacre.
.....T’Souvas’s attorney, George Davis, traveled to Da Nang in 1970 to investigate
the massacre and while there was assigned as an aide a Vietnamese colonel who
said that the massacre was a Phoenix operation and that the purpose of Phoenix
was “to terrorize the civilian population into submission.”
Davis told me: “When I told the
people in the War Department what I knew and that I would attempt to obtain all
records on the program in order to defend my client, they agreed to drop the
charges.”
.....Bart Osborn (whose agent net Stein inherited) is
more specific. “I never knew in the course of all those operations any detainee
to live through his interrogation,” Osborn testified before Congress in 1971.
“They all died. There was never any reasonable establishment of the fact that
any one of those individuals was, in fact, cooperating with the VC, but they all
died and the majority were wither tortured to death or things like thrown out of
helicopters.” [book
extract] The My Lai Massacre and The
“Tiger Cages” by Douglas Valentine

Demonstrator Maboud Ebrahimzadeh is held down during a simulation of
waterboarding outside the Justice Department in Washington (Reuters / Jim Young)